"[A] kind of cult has developed around Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which cannot believe they could ever be wrong, and produces ever more elaborate conspiracy theories to justify their mistakes."
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Tweet (22 November 2017), as cited in Oz Katerji "The West's Leftist 'Intellectuals' Who Traffic in Genocide Denial, From Srebrenica to Syria", Haaretz (24 November 2017)
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